The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-03-26
VARIOUS THINGS.

Rev. John Hancock Pettingell, the
illogical writer of wide reputation, died
in New Haven, Conn.,, on q recent Sun
day, aged seventyt two.
Cardinal Taschereau, of Quebec, has
prohibited Catholics from attending the
meetings of the Salvation Army. Tracts
and hymn books distributed by the Sal
vationists are ordered to be thrown into
the fire.
AT no time in the history of this
country, says the New York Advocate
(MethodisD, did true Christian manhood
weigh more, and merely nominal church
membership less, than now, in the esti-
mate OF the business world. In this we
think the Advocate states the exact
truth.
The Rev. Marcus Rainsford is prob
ably the first clergyman to preach in a
sewer. When new sewer in the north
OF London was recently being built, Mr..
Raineford, whose work is among the PEG.
pie of that neighborhood, went into the
sewer one evening and held services for
the workmen.
"A lady was once lamenting the Ill
luck which attended her affairs, when a
friend, wishing to console her, babe her
"look upon the bright SIDE" "Ohl" she
sighed, there seems to be no bright
side" "Then polish up the dark one,"
was the reply. This was sound ADVICE
Ltving Church.
The Ssoiss Cross says that for two
hours an immense fight of butterflies
passed over the city of Salzburg. They
flew from northeast to southwest at q
considerable height, and must have num-
bered millions. Such fight of these
winged insects some years ago passed
over Galveston Island.
-Messrs. O. L. Webster & Co., of New
York are now putting into type the me-
moirs of Pope Leo XIII, expecting to have
it out in time to celebrate the fiftieth an
niversary Of the beginning OF the Pope's
ministerial labors. The first edition will
be 100000 copies. 1t is edited by the
Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, D. D., with the
personal cooperation of His Holiness.
Not long ago the pupils of an Epis-
copal parish school we're asked by the
the rector, on one of his visitations,
to write down the Apostles Greed. He
III L. 81 Al~~k
boys, instead of writing, "I believe in
the Holy Catholic Church" had written,
in entire good faith, 81 believe in the
Holy Cat in the Church"
There is a strange sect in England
called the "New and Latter House OF
Israel" This people are building tenn
pie at Chatham Hill. The object is to
provide place where the remnant" OF
the rsople Of Israel-tbe IN, 900 spoken
Of in the Book of Revelstion-may gath
or. The leader has lately died, and
Mrs. Jezreel reigns in his stead.
There will be no leap year between
1895 and 1904. The ordinary test of
division by would make 1900 leap
year, since no remainder would be left;
but in revising the calendar Pope Greg
DRY XIII. found it would be necessary to
count as leap years only those centurial
years which would be divisible by 400
without remainder.
There are many oranges of curious
shape aud flavor we seldom or never see
in this country. Such are the pear
shaped kind grown in the far East; the
orange OF the Philippines, which is no
larger than good-sized cherry; the
double orange, in which two perfect
oranges appear, one within the other; and
the fingered citron of China, which is
very large. and is placed on the table
by the Celestials rather for its exquisite
fragrance than for its favor. - Church
Messenger.
An exchange says: "A house of
straw is now being made at Philadel-
phia for the American Exhibition which
opens in London, May 2. It is suburb
an villa, very high, and covering a space
of 42x50 feet. 1t is built entirely of ma
terials manufactured from straw, founda-
lions, timber, flooring, sheeting, roofing;
everything, in fact, including the CHM
neys, the material being fire. proof as
well as waterproof. The inside finish
will be in imitation of various kinds OF
wood.
The most curious book in the world
is one that is neither written nor printed.
Every letter Of the text is cut into the
leaf, and as the alternate leaves are of
blue paper, it is as easily read as the best
print. The labor required and the pa
thence necessary to cut each letter may
be imagined. The work is so perfect
that it seems as though done by machin-
cry, but every character was made by
hand. The book is entitled, "The Pas
sion of Christ" and is now in museum
in France.
There are ten thousand wandering
households in Great Britain-gypsies and
others who live in caravans" Hitherto
little attention has been paid to their
social condition, and their children have
been allowed to grow up with half saw